The funny thing is, the winner boy loves math and music so much, and doesn’t care much for spelling or spelling bees. After he won, the tv announcer asked him if he liked spelling just a LITTLE bit more, now that he’d won, and he was dead silent, trying to figure out a way to be polite. He obviously still didn’t get his kicks from it! Sweet boy. As was the cute little Canadian runner up.
We had fun spelling along with the bee at my house. I am pretty good ONLY because I am fluent in French and German, and so many of “our English” (?) words are flat out French and German. But I am too old to enter, alas. :)
My kids got a kick out of the commentators. They said they were making really stupid, pointless comments. It fits.